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- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million How Uber, Etsy, and Airbnb climbed from one thousand customers to one million. Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research at Harvard Business School takes a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Wizard to the Rescue
Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
John Oxtoby
small-business owners to Fortune 500 CEOs to make sure their ideas and voices were heard." Turning best policy ideas into reality Although John had “an amazing experience in government,” he wanted to “complement my public-sector work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The Next Chapter
OLSON: After publishing, turning over a new leaf. Former Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson (MBA ’76) has donned a new hat and will begin teaching corporate strategy at HBS next month. Olson is no stranger to Harvard, having... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
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Alexander Roque Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Deciding to SPNM: Turning Challenges into Opportunity, Learning, and Change Alexander... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Mom Corps
have come, as retiring baby boomers deplete companies of skilled and experienced workers. And O’Kelly has found that there is no shortage of mothers looking for a kid-friendly route back to corporate America. Mom Corps, launched in 2005 and based in Atlanta, is on the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Debbie McCoy
Caterpillars cocoon and turn into butterflies. Change, the only constant of life, is always happening to these morphing creatures. I always wonder if the animal ever knows in which phase it finds itself. My life is no different. When I've... View Details
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Josh Solera
could we put together a coherent, district-wide structure to turn around eleven schools? It wasn’t easy being only twenty-three, twenty-four, and talking to people who had been living with these challenges for years. But in eleven months,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shaan Gandhi
time. We can defer judgement and muddle along. Or, we can make the tough call and focus our resources to try to achieve the best outcome, because it's the hard decisions that allow us to grow. It's the hard decisions that allow us to live. It takes courage to own the... View Details
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Clara Nevins | MBA
changing an antiquated social norm — that men have to make the first move in dating. Bumble turned that on its head and gave the power to women. By creating a tech company that is centered around these values, they created a category... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mark Cicirelli
When I was a kid I blew the fuse in my parents' house—a lot. I had turned the basement into my "laboratory," where I spent far too many late nights poring through science books, building gadgets, and using a lot of electricity.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Anusha Rajadorai
made me. Now it’s my turn to help you believe. You can be more than you ever imagined, you can have the Midas touch. Together we will turn anything you believe into gold. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
them and do simple maintenance, like cleaning their crucial navigation sensors. Another opportunity is alternative fuels. When cars propelled by electricity or hydrogen go mainstream, someone will have to build a nationwide fuel distribution network. We could always... View Details
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Laura Hayden
When I was little I wanted to be a comedian. I thought there was something magical in being able to make others laugh. I loved the idea that just by telling a story you could make people forget about their troubles and release this wild and loving emotion. View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2007), Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton (MBA ’87) declared that from his perspective “the global economy in general — and the entertainment business in particular — is absolutely... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past
ashamed and turned as white as the wall. There is nothing to gloss over. These crimes are disgusting.” Harf also told the Agence France-Presse that the family plans to take the findings of the investigation public when it is complete.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
The 1995 earthquake that devastated his native Kobe, Japan, was a turning point for Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993). “It made me realize that I wanted to revitalize Japan’s economy,” says Mikitani, who also sponsored relief efforts during the... View Details